Saving Excel and Word document in the same file

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Has anyone ever tried to save a Excel document and a Word document in
the same physical file?
I have an application where there is always 1 Excel and 2 Word
documents and 1 or 2 other files that belong together. I want to save
them in 1 physical file so the users can't mix them up.

Any ideas?

Tosch
 
Tosch said:
Has anyone ever tried to save a Excel document and a Word document
in the same physical file?
I have an application where there is always 1 Excel and 2 Word
documents and 1 or 2 other files that belong together. I want to
save them in 1 physical file so the users can't mix them up.
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Do you want to use VB.NET to do this?
 
Hello,

Tosch said:
Has anyone ever tried to save a Excel document and a
Word document in the same physical file?
I have an application where there is always 1 Excel and 2 Word
documents and 1 or 2 other files that belong together. I want to save
them in 1 physical file so the users can't mix them up.
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You can compress them into a single ZIP file, for example. But this doesn't
make sense for me.
 
¤ Has anyone ever tried to save a Excel document and a Word document in
¤ the same physical file?
¤ I have an application where there is always 1 Excel and 2 Word
¤ documents and 1 or 2 other files that belong together. I want to save
¤ them in 1 physical file so the users can't mix them up.
¤

You can embed one document within another but that probably isn't what you want to do.

The old Microsoft Binder object was able to store multiple documents within a single file container,
but I don't believe it is supported any longer.


Paul ~~~ (e-mail address removed)
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
 
Hi Paul,
The old Microsoft Binder object was able to store multiple documents within a single file container,
but I don't believe it is supported any longer.
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It's supported, but has to be installed from Office 97 or 2000. And for 2002 or 2003 the support has
to be installed explicitly, during setup. This would seem to come closest to what Tosch is requesting.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister
http://www.mvps.org/word
http://go.compuserve.com/MSOfficeForum

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Hi Cindy,

¤
¤ > The old Microsoft Binder object was able to store multiple documents within a single file container,
¤ > but I don't believe it is supported any longer.
¤ >
¤ It's supported, but has to be installed from Office 97 or 2000. And for 2002 or 2003 the support has
¤ to be installed explicitly, during setup. This would seem to come closest to what Tosch is requesting.
¤
¤ Cindy Meister
¤ INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
¤ http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister
¤ http://www.mvps.org/word
¤ http://go.compuserve.com/MSOfficeForum
¤
¤ This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and
¤ not by e-mail :-)

There are a couple of automation examples, although they're a bit dated:

ACC: How to Use Automation to Create a Microsoft Office Binder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;148859

HOWTO: Automate the Microsoft Office Binder Object through OLE
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;153305


Paul ~~~ (e-mail address removed)
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
 
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